London, Feb. 7.
Arrangements are progressing in the City for underwriting a new India six per cent. Joan of $6,000,000 at 91 redeemable on June 15, 1932, Jat par, or on June 16, 1933, at 101—Reuter.
Pants, Feb, 5—Financial circles report that the presidents: of State banks of France, England, Belgium, Italy, Japan, Germany and. United. States will meet at Paris during the second half of February in order to discuss the appointment of fourteen members of the Board of the-Bank of Scttlements, for the seat of which, as is well Known, the town of Basle has been chosen-—Trans-Ocean. Kuo. Min, jo Premier and- head: of the British delegation to the Naval Conference, Mr' Ramsay " Mac-Donald, accompanied by: ex-Premier Wakatsuki, the chief Japanese delegate, and Colonel Stimson, the chief United States delegate, to-day eeccived at St. James' Palace deputation of women, organized. by the Women's International League for "Peace. and Freedom, with petitions against war.
The petitions were signed, amongst others, by 6,000,000 American and 180,000 Japanese women, and'among the delegation which presented them, were two Japanese woman.
'The League has afflations' with 40 countries and the resolutions were presented on behalf of their peoples to the Powers: participating the Conference, except Italy:
The delegation also presented: to the Premier an international resolution urging drastic reductions in all types of naval armaments. and, particularly, the aboli ships.
Mr. MacDonald, replying, tribute to women as pioneers in the work of preparing the way for the Conference.
He declared that; whatever were the results of the present Conference, it was not the last word on disarm The Premier then proceeded to outline the complexities of the situation and the tremendous di culties in reaching an agreement owing to the nations' different needs, Mr. MacDonald: thought that the Conference would get a good agree ment, but said that, even if did not fulfil' all expectations, the greatest achievement would be that the nations had assembled and reached '8 moral understanding.
He went on to say that not only superfluous ships, but superfluous programmes, must. be scrapped: The great problem for solution wa to unite peace with security, which; in its composition, was nine-tenths psychological.
Colonel Stimson also made a short speech, but Mr. Wakatsuki smiling: ly declined to say anything Reuter.
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